Living the dream.
Hello everyone, and welcome to a new weekend! Thank you for keeping Weekend Photo Fun Running in my absence for the past few weeks.
While going through my friend Chris's collection of gaming and hobby supplies, I came across this gem. It is a Dungeon Crawl Classics role playing game module for an adventure set upon a train infested with Orcs!
How crazy!
What great cover art. If you ever wanted to play a game of Dungeons And Dragons on a train, here it is!
I skimmed through the rules for this adventure, and it seems fun. I really wish I would have had the chance to play through it with Chris as the Dungeon Master. It would have been a great time.
Maybe I will get some junk Lionel trains and host a good old fashioned dungeon crawl at my house in his honor. It has been decades since I hosted/DM'd a good old tabletop RPG. Never seen one with model trains as the theme.
I am looking forward to seeing everyone's photographs this weekend. This thread can always be counted on to be the best of the week.
-Kevin
Thanks for setting things up for the Mom's day WPF, Kevin.
I don't believe I've ever had the pleasure of playing Dungeons & Dragons before. Donkey Kong, Q-bert, Pac Man, yes but no D&D. Maybe I'll have to put it on my bucket list?
Last week I was running some passenger trains with heavyweight equipment and realized I didn't have an NYC diner for my little people to grab a bite. It had been in the workshop for years, actually awaiting interior lights.
NYC_Diner-647-tables-1 by Edmund, on Flickr
I thought about placing people at the tables but as you can see the scale makes things kind of cramped so I opted for making some flower vases for the tables.
NYC_Diner-647-tables by Edmund, on Flickr
So the car is 'between meals' and the crew is getting things ready for the dinner rush.
CUT_P-1a-214 by Edmund, on Flickr
NYC_Diner-647 by Edmund, on Flickr
I added my usual lighting circuit with a keep alive capacitor. My little people are happy to have a meal option now.
More great stuff to come!
Cheers, Ed
Kevin. Thanks for starting this weeks WPF.
Never played Dungeons & Dragons. Bet it is fun though. Came across this saying. Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and taste good with ketchup.
Ed. Those flowers look really neat. Well done.
Myself. I really must get into the train room. What with the Coronation, friends & family visiting & two birthdays time flys by.
Younger granddaughter is visiting this week. We shall run trains.
I am looking at old pictures of running trains when the grandchildren are here.
Passengers on a train.
IMG_5547 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Anything is run
IMG_5038 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Superheroes.
IMG_5398 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Thomas joins in with Annie & Clarabel.
IMG_2295 by David Harrison, on Flickr
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
Roses by Bear, on Flickr
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Good morning from Sunny and Warm Northeast Ohio!
Kevin, thanks for starting us out, I was never into D&D, but I used to play the Avalon Hill War Games a lot. My Daughter-in-Law is a Dungeon Master and does that a lot.
Ed, lots of good looking detail in your models.
David, Nice pictures as usual, enjoy the super hero's a lot, we always need a little fun in our modeling.
Bear, "Eu de Plastique" just love it!!!!!
Even with working on another bowling tournament and other stuff this week managed to get some modeling done.
First Up, an old Details West Blue Island Reefer kit, Evans built serveral thousand of these cars and they ended up in the grocery and lumber shipping business. The Ralston cars did not last long in their livery and ended up with C&NW reporting marks. Car was painted with Scalecoat II ATSF Red and Silver Paints and then lettered with Herald King Decals.
Next, the SP & SSW had serveral thousand of these FMC built cars on the roster for transporting lumber from the Pacific Northwest across the country. IMRC Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Tuscan Red and Silver Paints and lettered with Herald King Decals.
I also continued work on the Moloco PC&F RBL with 10' Offset Doors. Here I have completed the B end detailing including the cut levers.
Now the side detail except the ladders have been added, I skip the ladders at this point as it makes it easier to mask the sides as the car ends are a different color than the body. I will paint the ladders when I paint the body and attach them later.
A Pair of SP & SSW SD's with a general freight running on the Strongsville Club layout.
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
Rule 3: Illuminating discussion of prototype history, equipment and operating practices is always welcome, but in the event of visitor-perceived anacronisms, detail descrepancies or operating errors, consult RULE 1!
Kevin, Thanks for starting the WPF. Your 'scary' locomotive provides an opportune opening for a 'scary' truck and some Spielberg inspired 'Duelin'.
Btw, Hemi Orange gloss paint was a good match for the Eko Valiant, my first time using a Tru-Color product. Far from an airbrush master I found it to be a forgiving paint. Mixed 50/50 with proprietary thinner and shot thru an Iwata Eclipse HP-CS at 20psi, the paint went on smooth and with a nice finish.
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers. Have a good weekend and a Happy Mothers Day. Regards, Peter
OK, back to the beer cars...
We will take a spin thru Columbus Ohio...
Then on to Frankenmuth Michigan...
HO-Velo Your 'scary' locomotive provides an opportune opening for a 'scary' truck and some Spielberg inspired 'Duelin'.
Duel is one of my 512 favorite movies. It is hard to believe it was originally made as a TV movie.
The final scene where the Peterbilt rolls down the hill is amazing. I am sure a similar scene today would all be digital.
Good afternoon
Welcome back! Good to have you hosting WPF again Kevin
That Steamer pic is wickedly delightful. Reminds me of "The Road Warriors", done Steam Style!
Years ago, was fascinated by the History of Union Pacific's Turbine Diesels. They started out as an experimental phase, and manufactured a couple years later, #51-60. And then the improved Big Blows, #1-30.
These extremely powerful locomotives ran from Illinois, down through the plains of Utah. They were so loud that they were banned from city limits. The crews wore ear protection running those Monsters.
Fuel was cheap back then, and probably a good thing, as these Turbine Diesels burned 900 gallons of diesel fuel per hour. They had to pull fuel tenders to fuel their large appetites for the long haul.
They even put candy in the Box for the Big Kid opening it
Need to apologize that I'm nervous to take these things out of the package, and haven't done so yet. Scale Trains has such fine prototypical detail, even N scale has raised grab irons, and they look so fragile, if you breathed on them wrong, they might break
Purchased #60 & #6, and it would have been prototypical for them to have ran together.
Nothing to do with my layout has anything to do with Union Pacific, or the area these Turbines used to run, but just had to have them
Excellent stuff to look at here as always gentleman Thanks for sharing
TF
I got an athearn sd40-2 running. It has a nice paint job.
And I got a matching caboose!
Duel was originally a short story in Playboy. I'm sure that's why I read the magazine.
Howard Zane has one of those turbos. As a brass guy he was quite proud of the detail of the engine. The sound wasn't quite my cup of tea. Haven't seen Howard in the Forum in quite a while.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
SeeYou190 Duel is one of my 512 favorite movies. It is hard to believe it was originally made as a TV movie. -Kevin
I remember seeing it when it first aired and I thought it was an outstanding movie. I didn't find out until many years later that not only did Steven Spielberg direct it, it was his directorial debut.
He talked about it on Inside the Actors Studio. There was one scene in which Dennis Weaver was talking in a phone booth and Spielberg's reflection showed up on the phone booth. Alfred Hitchcock was known for making cameos in his movies and James Lifton asked Spielberg if that was his intent and Spielberg said it was a beginner's mistake. He also said the movie played in Europe on the big screen and in one scene, Spielberg can be seen sitting in the passenger's seat of Weaver's car due to the wide angle.
NorthBrit Kevin. Thanks for starting this weeks WPF. Never played Dungeons & Dragons. Bet it is fun though. Came across this saying. Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and taste good with ketchup. Ed. Those flowers look really neat. Well done. Myself. I really must get into the train room. What with the Coronation, friends & family visiting & two birthdays time flys by. Younger granddaughter is visiting this week. We shall run trains. I am looking at old pictures of running trains when the grandchildren are here. Passengers on a train. IMG_5547 by David Harrison, on Flickr Anything is run IMG_5038 by David Harrison, on Flickr Superheroes. IMG_5398 by David Harrison, on Flickr Thomas joins in with Annie & Clarabel. IMG_2295 by David Harrison, on Flickr David
Hornby Battle Force pieces by chance?
Shane
A pessimist sees a dark tunnel
An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel
A realist sees a frieght train
An engineer sees three idiots standing on the tracks stairing blankly in space
Track fiddlerThat Steamer pic is wickedly delightful. Reminds me of "The Road Warriors", done Steam Style!
The drawings inside the module are just as wickedly delightful!
NVSRR Hornby Battle Force pieces by chance? Shane
Yes, Shane. They were a 'bulk buy' on 'fleabay'. They were a cheap buy (and I mean cheap - £6.15 including postage. $7.20 ish) because they do not operate like they should. They do run well on the track though and my oldest grandson loves them.
No work on the layout, but Randy Stahl brought over his amazing Milwaukee Road ore train for a trial run on my N-scale Housatonic RR layout Saturday. He body mounted Microtrains Truescale couplers, with mounts from Shapeways, FVM and ESM metal low profile wheels and Hay Bros. loads. Every car is decaled, has non repeating road numbers and was was nicely weathered. We ran an ore train with 150 cars that stretched over 22 feet. No slinky effect whatsoever. Here is a quick video. I'll post more info in my layout thread later. This is on code 55 track and all low profile wheels. They were so free-rolling, I was even able to pull the entire consist with one GP9 later on!Trackwork may have contributed... , but that was an amazingly well done unit train!
https://youtu.be/iKbYI2g4MYM